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• There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Guy, Majority, Littles

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.

  Rollo May

  Errors, Neurosis, Kind

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Men, Political

  Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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• Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Roles, Tailors

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Your literary style reflects your personality.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Style, Literary Style

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• I am not that person who walks in a room with my nose in the sky. I smile at people when I meet them, and I like photos of me when I'm smiling because they show my personality. I am always trying to have fun.

  Heidi Klum

  Fun, Sky, Always Trying

  Allure, April 2010.

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• We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

  Guy Berryman

  Brain, Different

  "Coldplay's Quiet Storm". Interview with Austin Scaggs, www.rollingstone.com. August 25, 2005.

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• Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Disorder, Symptoms

  "The South Bank Show", 2007.

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• But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

  Jimmy Carr

  Overwhelming Desire, Opposites, People

  "He who laughs last... - Comedy" by Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, December 3, 2006.

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• A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Hurt, Children, Home

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Believe, Character, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.

  Jack Jason

  Giving, Borders, Action

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that.

  Chris Christie

  Bullying, People, Like You

  N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.

  Harold Geneen

  Commitment, Emotional, Dedication

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Psychology

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Vision, Quality

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• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Loved Ones, Sexuality

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Ideas, Space, Actors

  "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.

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• Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Stress, War, Men

  "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.

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• People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, People, Suitors

  "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty, Reader's Digest, September 2007.

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• People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Political

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• My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

  Aga Khan III

  Father, Views, Islam

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• Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another... The most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Party, Vision

  "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (pp. 102, 112), 1930.

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• The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Intelligent, Common Purpose, Goal

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Believe, Judging, Humanity

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